[Dovecot] Doveadmn Quota

Steven King sking at kingrst.com
Mon Jul 12 02:40:42 EEST 2010


 Ah that makes sense. Was this a change for 2.0 or is this recommended
for 1.x as well?

On 7/11/10 5:39 PM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 11.7.2010, at 21.53, Steven King wrote:
>
>> Ah ok, what is the difference between loading the plugin outside of
>> protocol sections vs inside them?
> Inside protocol section it affects only programs using that protocol. You can have:
>
> mail_plugins = foo
> protocol imap {
>   mail_plugins = bar
> }
> protocol pop3 {
>   mail_plugins = $mail_plugins bar
> }
>
> Now IMAP uses only "bar" plugin, POP3 uses "foo bar" plugins and everything else uses "foo". A realistic good setup could look like:
>
> mail_plugins = quota acl autocreate
> protocol imap {
>   mail_plugins = $mail_plugins imap_acl imap_quota
> }
>
> Usually you want to enable plugins globally, and IMAP is the special case which has IMAP-specific plugins (well, sieve also for LDA).

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Steve King

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